with data movement, maintain
data currency and leverage
pervasive encryption to encrypt
all data when combined with
data-in-place capabilities like IBM
Open Data Analytics for z/OS.
topic impacting all industries and
all geographies," Henderson says.
Cloud computing can help
make the job easier-if its many
security capabilities are put to
work. The IBM Z platform's tools
and technologies have been
sharpened to better fend off the
cyberpillagers seeking to plunder
enterprises' precious data
treasure.
Gene Rebeck is a freelance writer
based in Duluth, Minnesota.
Other Tools
IBM Z also has boosted an
enterprise's ability to maintain
security across its entire cloud
network. "Previously, there
was no way for a network
administrator or an auditor to
determine how network traffic
was detected," Henderson
says. "But now IBM has made
improvements in security that
enable that."
In addition, the IBM Secure
Service Container "is a key
capability for Linux* on IBM Z
and LinuxONE," Henderson says.
With Secure Service Containers,
clients and ISVs can securely
build and deploy applications
that are built as appliances. The
data and application code that's
running in the Service Container
are protected from unauthorized
users. "The confidentiality of
the encoded data is maintained
through encryption, and the
appliance code is validated
through a trusted boot process
in order to reduce the risk of
tampering or malware and ensure
that it originates from a trusted
source," Henderson says.
Yet another security capability
is encryption key management.
The network's overseer can look
at the keys when they're on disk
using the IBM Crypto Express card,
a tamper-proof hardware security
model. And when the encryption
keys are put in the memory, they
can be protected with the IBM CP
Assist for Cryptographic Function
wrapping key.
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